Turner for green malt.



No- 829,307. PATENTED AUG. 21, I906.

G. WEINBEER TURNER FOR GREEN MALT.

APPLICATION FILED ran. 15. 190B.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 21, 1906.

Application filed February 15, 1905. Serial No. 301,289.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GREooR WEINBEER, a subject of the German Emperor,residing at Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Turners for Green Malt; and I do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention has for its object a green malt turner having shovels orscoops guided in a straight line and set in oscillation by means ofeccentrics, in which for the purpose of enabling the direction in whichthe green malt is thrown to be suitably altered the straight guidingarrangement, operatmg the movement of the shovels or scoops in astraight line, is adapted to be adjusted into any suitable position ofinclination by means of a worm-gear or the like. By this means it ispossible to suitably alter more particularly the throw for the malt inorder to give it a shorter or longer exposure for the absorption ofoxygen during its passage through the air.

The invention with one shovel or scoop is shown in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is a side view of the ap 'iaratus; Fig. 2, aplan view; Fig. 3, a front view, and Fig. 4 a diagram of theIl'lOVlllTlGllt of the scoop or shovel.

Bearing-s11 ports a are mounted between the carriers 1? of the turningapparatus, in which supports a is mounteda two-part shaft 0, carrying acrank 0 Two guides d, revoluble on the shaft 0, are arranged on theprolonged ends e of the bearings. Each guide is provided with twooppositely-projecting alined arms (1 that are firmly connected with oneanother by means of cross-bars f.

On the hub g of one of the guides (l a wormsector it is mounted, withwhich a worm 'i gears, the shaft is of which is mounted in the carriers6 and may be turned by a handwheel Z. The lifting element m in thenature of a shovel or scoolp is secured to hangers m", carried by theshat n, which is connected by head-blocks a with the four rods or bars0. The bars 0 slide in the guides (i when the shaft n is reciprocated bythe crank-shaft c and the connecting-rod p. An eccentric disk g, mountedon the crank-pin of the crankshaft, also causes, by means of a rod 1"and lever s, a rocking movement of the shovel or scoop m on the shaft n.The guides d, in

which the rods 0 slide, are adjusted into the desired oblique positionby turning a handwheel 1, thus producing a turning of the worm i and theworm-wheel h.

The curve shown in Fig. 4, described by the point of the shovel orscoop, enables it to be seen how the malt is taken 11 in a curve by theshovel and on the rcversal of the direction of IHOVCll'lGI'lt is rapidlythrown off in flatter or steeper direction, according to the inclinationof the guides 01.

Of course by a reversed position of the scoop and opposite direction ofrotation of the crankshaft the turning of the malt may also take placein the opposite direction.

I declare that what I claim is 1. A malt-turning apparatus embodying alifting element and means for imparting oscillatory and rectilinearreciprocatory movements thereto.

2. A malt-turning ap )aratus embodying a lifting element, means forimparting oscillatory and rectilinear reciprocatory movement thereto,and means for changing the inclination of the lifting element to varythe direction of throw of the malt.

3. A malt-turning ap )aratus embodying a lifting clement, means forimparting oscillatory and rectilinear reciprocatory movements thereto,and means for ad'usting the lifting element through the arc of a circlewhereby to reverse the direction of throw of the malt.

4. A malt-turning apparatus embodying a rectilinear reci irocatorymember, a lifting element carrie thereby, and means for impartingoscillatory movements to the said element.

5. A malt-turning apparatus embodying a rectilinear reciprocatorymember, a lifting element carried thereby, means for im artingoscillatory movements to the said e ement, and means for changing theinclination of the element to vary the direction of throw of the malt.

6. A malt-turning apparatus embodying a lifting element, a leveroperatively connected therewith, an eccentrically-driven rod connectedwith the lever, to impart oscillatory movements to the lifting element,and means for imparting rectilinear reciproeatory movements to the saidelement.

7. A malt-turning apparatus embodying a driven crank-shaft, guidesloosely mounted on the shaft, rods engaging the guides, a liftingelement supported by the rods, and a pair of eccentrics carried by thecrank, one of which is operatively connected with the lifting element,and the other with the said rods.

8. A malt-turning apparatus embod ing a crank-shaft, guides mounted foroscillatory movement thereon, rods engaging the guides, a liftin clementsupported by the rods, and means or imparting rectilinear reciprocatorymovements to the rods and oscillatory movements to the lifting element.

9. A malt-turning a paratus embodying a support, a crank-shaii journaledthereon, connected guides carried by the crank-shaft, a toothed sectorcarried by one of the guides, a worm carried by the support and engagingthe sector, pairs of rods engaging the guides, head-blocks connectingthe pairs of rods, a

shaft supported by the head-blocks, a lifting element and a levercarried by the shaft, a pair of eccentrics carried by the crank, a rodconnecting one of the eccentrics and the lever to impart oscillatorymovement to the lifting element, and a rod connecting the othereccentric and the lever-carrying guideengaging rods.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature to this specification in thepresence of two witnesses.

GREGOR VVEINBEER.

Witnesses WILIIELM II'L' NN, ABRAHAM GARTNER

